[Gormisdomai]

> At Gratipay, we believe that companies want to pay for open source, and will pay for open source if it’s easy enough—bureaucratically, technically, and socially.

I think this is the right insight, but clicking around the links on their website I don't think they were executing on that insight particularly well. This looks more like it was a platform for individuals to make recurring donations than for companies to support the tools they use.

[mattbk1]

There was a lot of pivoting going on near the end, unfortunately. The "companies pay" version of the site wasn't around for very long.

[whit537]

Thrashing, one might even call it. :)

[mattbk1]

Glad to see you're still around!

[whit537]

<3

Funny timing, btw. :)

https://twitter.com/chadwhitacre_/status/1431368348886052865

[kawsper]

You were such an inspiration to me seeing how you were running Gratipay, I only did one PR, but it was so interesting following from the sidelines.

[whit537]

<3

Not seeing you at github.com/kawsper so not sure what the PR was ... but thanks for the PR! :)

[whit537]

> I don't think they were executing on that insight particularly well.

Probably why they don't exist anymore.